1 Class = 1 True State champ

[barbwire]

While I am not from Indiana, this article makes it sound like they do it right up there. Can you imagine 10,000 fans!!!!

 

The title of the article can be interpreted several ways. In this situation though we are going to take a look at High School wrestling in Indiana, and it is in fact classless. One division, all athletes compete with one another in their respective weight classes for the ultimate prize, standing atop the podium at the end of the season. One Class, One Champion.

 

This past weekend the Indiana High School Athletic Association and Conseco Field house hosted the 73rd individual State finals in wrestling. If you haven’t been fortunate enough to witness the event in person it is certainly an activity that you simply must put on your bucket list. Athletes from all walks of life meet as equals, the only difference among them being the skill level that they have attained after immersing themselves into the sport from as early as elementary school, and in some situations even before that. The setting is almost magical, the two wrestlers at each weight who meet in the finals are introduced to the over 10,000 spectators in a spectacular fashion. All of the lights are doused except for a single spotlight illuminating each competitor as they are introduced. These are no simple introductions mind you. The reading of the laundry list of accomplishments that they have achieved is resumes that young and old in the audience dream about.

 

Once the fans have met all of the duos in the finals, the wrestlers square off with one another under a singular spotlight that illuminates a simple mat in the center of the vast field house.

 

Read the rest of the story here: http://news.theopenmat.com/2011/02/classless-in-indiana/

[takedown3]

But one of the most important functions of the TSSAA's Board of Control is to insure as many schools and athletes get to be state champions. You know, kind of like a T-ball league.

[pointblankrange]

bump because I support this.

[Underhook]

Great Tournament. Look at the wrestlers records in the brackets. No fat on that steak.

 

http://www.ihsaa.org/dnn/Portals/0/Boys%20Sports/Wrestling/2010-11/1011StateBrackets.pdf

[mohawke]

Great Tournament. Look at the wrestlers records in the brackets. No fat on that steak.

 

http://www.ihsaa.org/dnn/Portals/0/Boys%20Sports/Wrestling/2010-11/1011StateBrackets.pdf

 

 

Yeah, kind a like the D-2 records of the unseeded wrestlers? Bring back the one state champ.